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  • FILE: Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono speaks to the press after his release on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, on 2 September 2020. Picture: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP

    Zim journo Hopewell Chin'ono: I’m being persecuted for exposing corruption

    Hopewell Chin'ono was granted bail of 20,000 Zim dollars on Wednesday following his latest arrest on charges of "communicating falsehoods".

    476 days ago
  • Nick Mangwana. Picture: Twitter/@nickmangwana

    Top Zimbabwe official sorry over 'medical assassins' slur

    Four cabinet ministers and numerous state officials from the ruling Zanu-PF party have died from the coronavirus as Zimbabwe's decrepit health system battles a new wave of infections.

    477 days ago
  • FILE: Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono speaks to the press after his release on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, on 2 September 2020. Picture: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP

    Zimbabwean journo Chin'ono granted bail following latest arrest

    Hopewell Chin'ono was arrested earlier this month for tweeting about alleged police brutality.

    477 days ago
  • FILE: Zimbabwe's foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo. Picture: AFP

    Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa confirms COVID-19 death of foreign affairs minister Moyo

    Foreign affairs minister Sibusisio Moyo is the latest top government official to succumb to the virus, following the weekend death of Manicaland provincial affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba.

    484 days ago
  • FILE: Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono speaks to the press after his release on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, on 2 September 2020. Picture: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP

    Harare court denies bail for journalist Hopewell Chin'ono

    The journalist was arrested six days ago for tweeting about an alleged police assault on a baby.

    490 days ago
  • FILE: A medical staff member wearing protective equipment places a face mask on a mock patient at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare. Picture: AFP

    Zim govt orders burials of COVID-19 victims be done in towns where they died

    Government said that bodies could not be taken home for family members to pay their last respects.

    493 days ago
  • Zimbabwe human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa (L) and journalist Hopewell Chin’ono (R) in court on 18 August 2020 . Picture: @ZLHRLawyers/Twitter.

    Zimbabwe journalist Chin'ono vows 'fight' for media rights from prison

    Hopewell Chin'ono, 48, was jailed a third time last week for posting a video allegedly showing a police officer beating a baby to death.

    493 days ago
  • Hopewell Chin’ono. Picture: Hopewell Chin’ono/Fcabeook.com

    Zim journo Hopewell Chin’ono rearrested over tweet about police

    The journalist was picked up at his Harare home on Friday afternoon and police are accusing him of communicating falsehoods.

    496 days ago
  • This undated handout picture courtesy of the British Health Protection Agency shows the coronavirus seen under an electron microscope. Picture: AFP.

    UK extends restricted entry from some African countries over SA’s COVID variant

    Zimbabwe, like many other countries, is experiencing a surge in coronavirus deaths and infections, with 15 deaths and 871 cases in the past 24 hours, though there's been no confirmation it's due to the new variant.

    496 days ago
  • FILE: Police officers manning a check point quiz a driver going into the central business district on 20 April 2020, in Emakhandeni township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Picture: AFP.

    Police appeal for information after Zim’s ‘biggest ever’ cash-in-transit heist

    Police say the driver and his two colleagues gave a lift to six passengers. One produced a pistol and disarmed the drivers at a lay-bye near the Gwebi River.

    497 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied.

    COVID-19: Trio gets jail time for hosting NYE party in Zimbabwe

    The three had organised a musical event on New Year’s Eve in breach of a ban on public gatherings.

    498 days ago
  • A YouTube screengrab of Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressing the nation on 4 August 2020.

    Zimbabwe enters hard lockdown in ‘final push to defeat coronavirus’

    There has been a sudden surge in infections and deaths, with 564 new cases and four deaths reported over the past 24 hours.

    499 days ago
  • FILE: A medical staff member wearing protective equipment places a face mask on a mock patient at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare on 11 March 2020. Picture: AFP

    Zimbabwe goes back to hard lockdown over rising COVID-19 deaths, infections

    In a statement read on Saturday night, Zimbabwe's Vice President said 1,342 infections and 29 deaths recorded in the past week were the highest so far.

    501 days ago
  • The Beitbridge border post between South African and Zimbabwe. Picture: @HomeAffairsSA/Twitter

    SAAFF calls on govt to urgently intervene in Beitbridge border post backlogs

    Travellers seeking entry into Zimbabwe have spent nearly a week at the post in queues stretching several kilometres.

    509 days ago
  • FILE: Former Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti at The Gathering on the ANC's elective conference on 23 November 2017. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    Zimbabwe opposition VP Tendai Biti released on bail after assault charge

    Tendai Biti, 53, was freed on $10,000 bail after a night behind bars, after having been charged with assault.

    530 days ago
  • FILE: Zimbabwean flag. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    Zimbabwe VP's estranged wife appears in court on stretcher bed

    Reportedly critically ill with an unknown ailment, Mary Mubaiwa was briefly hauled into a Harare magistrate's court where her legal team argued she was not well enough to stand trial for allegedly assaulting a domestic worker.

    535 days ago
  • Rescue workers busy at work installing a water pump to drain water from a mine shaft so that they can gain access to at least 40 informal gold miners trapped inside a collapsed shaft at Ran Mine in Bindura, on 26 November 2020. Picture: AFP

    First body pulled from Zimbabwe gold mine disaster

    Around 40 people are thought to be stuck underground in the town of Bindura, around 70 kilometres (43 miles) northeast of the capital Harare, where the disaster occurred five days ago.

    535 days ago
  • FILE: The Beitbridge border post on 1 October 2020. Picture: AFP

    SA’s land borders worse than being porous, claims the DA

    The party’s Shadow Minister of Defence Kobus Marias and his team have been on an oversight visit to evaluate conditions at several border posts between South Africa and Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

    537 days ago
  • The Beitbridge border. Picture: GCIS.

    DA to visit Mozambique & Zimbabwe borders to experience border control

    DA shadow minister of defense Kobus Marius said the department must act and stop making empty promises.

    537 days ago
  • Picture: EWN

    100 pupils test positive for COVID-19 at Zimbabwe school

    Zimbabwe has so far recorded 8,897 cases of coronavirus, including 257 deaths, far fewer than in neighbouring South Africa, which has notched up more than 750,000 cases with 20,314 fatalities.

    548 days ago
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